Delightful, being an earlier owner? (13)
I believe the answer is:
prepossessing
'delightful' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'being an earlier owner?' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'being' could be 'rep' (rep is a kind of being) and 'rep' is found in the answer.
'an' could be 'i' (Roman numeral for one) and 'i' is found within the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for prepossessing that I've seen before include "Attractive" , "Fetching" , "winning" , "looking good" .)